HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1981-05-13, Page 1II
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13,
1981
24 PAGES
ticution
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Last week was Education
Week .in Ontario ' and area
schools observed the week
with special programs. The
Lucknow. School. Concert
Band held their annual. eon -
cert' at the community centre •
and Brookside Public: School
staged their 14th. annual
spring concert. Entertaining
on the .trombones at the band
concert are from; the left,, Jed;
Ackert, Heather MacDoug-
all, Helen Macintyre and Jeff
Murray: The senior students
iat Brookside "presented an
operetta, Joseph and the
Amazing Technleolor Dream-
coat, starring . Wayne Bos
and John D.. MacKenzie' in
leading. roles, ` pictured be-
low, Mare pictures ,Of .educa-
tion
ducation week events appear on
page 12..
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A West 'Wawanosh; farmer 'has won the,
right to farm•-. his land as he sees fit in a`
confrontation with the ,Ministry of. Natural
Resources:.
.lith Moss was acquitted on a charge under
a seld'oin-laid• section of the federal fisheries
act of doing work resulting in "the harmful
alteration, disruption or destruction of a'fish
habitat": If found guilty, 'he would have
faced a fine. of up to 55,.000 or up to two years
in jail.• If convicted, the 32 year old pig.
farmer would have chosen jail. he said: •00
Judge , William Cochrane of Goderich
provincial court ruled the ministry had failed
to ,prove a fish . habitat existed in the
tributary of the Maitland River on the day
Moss was charged,. June 11, 1979. •Moss had
removedsome beaver dams which were
flooding 12 acres . of his 100 acre operation
and had straightened the shallow St. August
tine Creek, the court . learned earlier this
year.
It was a confrontation between Moss's
right to farm his land as he saw, fit, and the
ministry which argued it was trying to
proteet a rare spawning ground for trout.
While the ministry viewed the situation as
a test. case, Moss- saw it as a downright
Ripiey
boyinjured
A Ripley area youngster remains in critical
condition in University Hospital, London
afterbeing, struck by a car while riding a
motorbike last Thursday afternoon
Thomas Watson, 10, of concession 2,
Kincardine Township, was westbound on
south Durham Road # 10, when he attemp-
ted to make a left hand, turn into a driveway
and turned out in front of a car:
Driver of the car was Douglas Graham, 18,
of Huron Township,
The Watson boy was taken by ambulance
to Kincardine and District General Hospital
where he .was airlifted by helicopter to the
London hospital..
Thomas is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Watson Sr.
nuisance. The creek. and its bieavers .have
:gaused him nearly two years of legal hassles.
Cochrane ruled there were "certain frail-
ties" in the ministry's case about the fish
habitat. He noted while such a habitat was
proven six years before, no evidence was
entered in the trial.to"Show a habitat existed
when Moss .launched his assault on th
beavers. .
Moss intends to plant the recovered
agreage in corn. "Look at, this land around
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Area
sentenced on
theft charges
Pour Lucknow area youths were sentenced
to up to 15 months in jail in provincial court,.
Goderich. on May 6, on charges of break,
enter and theft and a charge of possession of
a prohibitive weapon.
The four men were arrested following
simultaneous raids on their residences,
March 26, when police recovered $75,000
worth of stolen .goods, taken in over 50
break-ins which occurred in a wide area from
Kitchener to the Lake Huron cottage
country.
One of the youths will serve 12months on
a break, enter and theft charge resulting.
from a break-in at Lakeport Welding,.
Colborne Township on Pebruary 16 and 17,
He will serve an additional three months on
the charge of possession of a prohibitive
ibitive
weapon.
Two of the young men will. serve 11
months on the break, enter and theft at
Lakeport Welding and .the fourth will serve
nine months on the sante charge.
on over 100 additional
The four were g iven concurrent sentences
charges.
The four men had appeared in court April
24 and were remanded until May 6 when
they entered guilty pleas before Judge
William Cochrane and were sentenced.
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The Antazing Technicolor Jirearr coat
Joseph feat....e.. Wayne left as
The operetta, and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat stared � Bos,
Pharoah and John 'D, hilacKenzie, right, as Joseph in two of the productions leading roles.
Senior students at Brookside Public School, under the direction of Don Cameron, presented
the production at their annual spring concert Thwodyy night. (Sentinel Staff Photo]
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